McLaughlin
McLaughlin was being taken under guard from Cheyenne toward Deadwood, in the custody of the escorting guards along with one other man. On the night of Friday, November 8, 1878, near Laramie, five masked men stopped the coach, according to the coach driver's report, took McLaughlin and the other man out, and hanged them from a cottonwood tree on the bank of the Platte River. The report says the guards were made to give up their arms and the men in their custody. Deputy Coroner M. L. Green found the bodies at daylight the next morning.
Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A coach-driver's report and Deputy Coroner M. L. Green say masked men stopped the coach near Laramie, took McLaughlin and another prisoner from the guards and hanged him from a cottonwood tree on the Platte River bank.
Reported by: coach-driver's report (witnesses); Deputy Coroner M. L. Green (medical examiner or coroner).